Most kids

prefer to eat bread without crusts. Hannah has recently started pulling the crusts off of her bread and eating only the middles. To her credit, it really is usually just the crusts, without a large margin. If the heel of the bread is all that is left, Hannah would probably rather go hungry than eat it.

Naomi, on the other hand, doesn't like the middles. She only wants to eat the crusts. Under duress, she may eat pieces of crust with some middle attached. But she's just as likely to pick off the softer middle pieces (and give them to Hannah) as she is to eat them. And then she asks Hannah for her crusts. The only time she'll eat an entire piece of bread is when it's the heel. She was enchanted when I finally figured out that she'd probably like the heel. A whole piece of bread with crusts? It's almost too good to be true!

I have never experienced a child who only wants to eat the crusts. It does make for cleaner mealtimes, of course, since she eats the crusts Hannah usually leaves, and Hannah eats the middles that Naomi leaves.